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Proclaiming the gospel to a lost world cannot be just another activity to add to the church’s crowded agenda. It must be central to who we are. It forms our identity.

Francis Chan

Trust whatever He has for you. It will be better than anything you can plan for yourself.
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Better Planning Trust Yourself
True faith manifests itself through our actions.
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Action Faith Ourselves True
A key to everything is surrender – to really come before the Lord and say, – I will literally stay here as long as you want me to stay’ or ‘God, I will really go anywhere on the earth.
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Earth God Myself Surrender
The point is not to completely understand God but to worship Him. Let the very fact that you cannot know Him fully lead you to praise Him for His infiniteness and grandeur.
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Complete God Himself Leadership Understand Worship
Without action and fruit, all the theology in the world has little meaning.
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Action Fruit Meaning World
We are most alive when we are loving and actively giving ourselves because we were made to do these things.
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Action Alive Ourselves
We need to be more concerned about who we are before God than our reputation before people.
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God Need Ourselves People Reputation
God has allowed hard things in your life so you can show the world that your God is great and that knowing Him brings peace and joy, even when life is hard.
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Allow God Hard Joy Life Peace World Yourself
God doesn’t want religious duty. He doesn’t want a distracted, half-hearted, ‘Fine, I’ll read a chapter, now are You happy?’ attitude. God wants His word to be a delight to us, so much that we meditate on it day and night.
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Chapter Day God Himself Meditation Night Religious
Making disciples isn’t about gathering pupils to listen to your teaching. The real focus is not on teaching people at all–the focus is on loving them.
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Education Focus Follow Love People Student Teaching
The world says love yourself, grab all you can, follow your heart. Jesus says deny yourself, grab your cross and follow me.
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Follow Heart Love Religious World Yourself
Christians are like manure: spread them out and they help everything grow better, but keep them in one big pile and they stink horribly.
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Fertilizer Growth Help Togetherness
He wants all or nothing. The thought of a person calling himself a ‘Christian’ without being a devoted follower of Christ is absurd.
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Call Devotion Follow Person Thinking Weird
God’s definition of what matters is pretty straightforward. He measures our lives by how we love.
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Definition God Live Love Measurement Ourselves Straight
When I am consumed by my problems-stressed out about my life, my family, and my job-I actually convey the belief that I think the circumstances are more important than God’s command to always rejoice.
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Command Consumption Family Important Life Problem Rejoice
Where it gets weird is that nowadays there are millions of people on this earth who call themselves followers of Jesus, but their lives look nothing like His, and they’re not obeying the things that He called them to do.
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Earth God Himself Live Obedience People Weird

Proclaiming the gospel to a lost world cannot be just another activity to add to the church’s crowded agenda. It must be central to who we are. It forms our identity.

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